BlackBerry Gets Its Own Siri With BlackBerry Assistant

WochitJul. 16, 2014. 08:08 AM EST

BlackBerry is trying to buildup some steam for its upcoming BlackBerry OS 10.3 launch, and for it...
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BlackBerry is trying to buildup some steam for its upcoming BlackBerry OS 10.3 launch, and for its new BlackBerry Passport hardware, and today that means a new feature reveal: The company detailed BlackBerry Assistant on its official blog today , and the feature looks unsurprisingly like Siri and Cortana for iOS and Windows Phone respectively. The Assistant features the now-omnipresent “microphone in a circle” icon to tell you where to press to get it to start working, and it offers up helpful shortcuts for certain actions, like sending a BBM, a text, an email or checking the weather (using iconography that looks an awful lot like Windows Phone’s grid-based design, by the way).
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